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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lester feel about his wife?
(a) He feels indifferent to her.
(b) He admires her.
(c) He is disgusted by her.
(d) He hates her.

2. Does Kathy feel like a criminal or an innocent victim as she thinks about what has happened while waiting in the hospital?
(a) She feels that she is both of those things.
(b) She feels that she is a victim, not a criminal.
(c) She feels that she is a criminal, not a victim.
(d) She feels that both ideas about her are wrong.

3. Why are they moving Kathy to another hospital?
(a) She has been classified as a flight risk.
(b) She is a resident of a different county.
(c) The second hospital has throat specialists.
(d) This hospital is overcrowded.

4. What does Lester instruct Kathy to think about while he is gone to the county offices with Esmail and Behrani?
(a) What to tell his boss.
(b) Someplace sunny they could go.
(c) What to do with all that money.
(d) Some way out of this mess.

5. How does Esmail surprise Lester as they enter the county building?
(a) By taking his gun.
(b) By hitting him.
(c) By running away.
(d) By screaming for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Behrani demand to be released from the bathroom?

2. What new charges could Behrani bring against Lester now that he is inside their home?

3. Of whom does Kathy remind Behrani?

4. What does Nadereh ask Kathy as soon as the men have left them alone?

5. How much bail will Lester have to pay to get out of jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Behrani's feelings change when he finds Kathy in the car in his driveway?

2. How does Kathy feel as she goes back into the house to wait for Lester?

3. Who does Lester want to call from jail and what does he plan to say?

4. Although Lester believes Behrani's story, he becomes angry again when Behrani describes Kathy as "drunk." Behrani is angry at Lester when he sees him studying his photo with the shah. How are these two moments similar?

5. Which of the Behranis takes responsibility for saving Kathy when they find her after she took the pills?

6. What is nazr?

7. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?

8. Why does Kathy go sit in the car to wait for Lester to return? Why doesn't she stay inside the house?

9. What is Connie Walsh's planned defense for Kathy?

10. Why does Kathy feel a sense of unreality while she is in the hospital?

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